Hildesheimer Quotes

#1. Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

Ward Churchill

#2. His eyes held hers. Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

Julie James

#3. When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#4. And he would take a roadside attraction, no matter how cheap, how crooked, or how sad, over a shopping mall, any day. M

Neil Gaiman

#5. I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#6. How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#7. I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

Charles Bukowski

#8. The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#9. The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#10. People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

Banksy

#11. Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Samuel Wilson

#12. In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#13. Man has been adjudged a social animal.

Frances Wright

#14. Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

Mark Morris